Jada Pinkett Smith is opening up about her life. The 52-year-old star got candid in her new memoir Worthy, detailing her marriage to Will Smith, her mental health struggle, and her upbringing.
She also spoke about leading a double life as a performer at school, and a drug dealer in the streets. “When you aren’t the priority of your parents, you don’t know how to be a priority to yourself.
I had parents who were addicted to drugs,” she said to People. Keep reading to find out more… Jada was raised between different homes, sometimes with her maternal grandmother, and sometimes with her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, a heroin addict who would get sober and eventually become a mainstay in her life.
Her father, who would at times be violent, would come in and out of her life. (Robsol Pinkett Jr. died in 2010.) “Not having a healthy foundation, as I would come to find out way into my adulthood, had some really strong effects in regard to how I saw myself,” she explains. “I knew that anything that I needed was something I needed to provide for,” Jada explained. “I decided to sell drugs.” “Growing up, the drug dealers were the ones that had affluence.
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